Conference of the Parties

For the first time in its 85-year history, the World Forestry Congress will come to Africa. The congress’s next gathering, held under the auspices of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, will take place in Durban in 2015.
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South Africa and Spain are committed to facing mutual challenges together, International Relations Deputy Minister Marius Fransman said following talks with visiting Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Juan Antonio Yanez-Barnuevo, in Pretoria on Wednesday.

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting runs from 26 to 30 January in Davos, Switzerland, and as was the case in previous years, South Africa is well represented in 2011.
• SA's BRIC membership to boost country